Bearing witness to the wretched living conditions of Harlem’s black population during the Great Depression, this short film was shot in the same year as the first race riot in that neighbourhood, now regarded as a distant ancestor of the “Black Lives Matter” movement.
Leslie Bain
Director
199269%
The Hate U Give80%
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)76%
Past Lives76%
Shaft64%
I Am Not Your Negro77%
Nickel Boys66%
The Great Debaters72%
The Cameraman78%
Selma73%
The Banker76%
Empire of Light66%
Boyz n the Hood76%
Passing62%
Dark Blue62%
In the Heights71%
District 974%
Tongues Untied66%
Madea's Big Happy Family67%
To Kill a Mockingbird79%